4thace reviewed Fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm by Philip Pullman
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4 stars
We all know that the original versions of classic fairy tales were weird, but it's good to take a look at exactly how weird they were. Disappearing characters utterly lacking in motives, deviant urges, just plain strange over the top situations that the characters accept as a matter of course, you will find them all here. Also, fairy tales that sound like knockoffs of other, better-known, fairy tales. To me, these represent the primordial soup of storytelling before modern ideas of what stories ought to feature had taken hold.